Intercultural training Korea: 200 experts from
business practice

In-house Training Korea

Seminar content: Intercultural training Korea

The following suggested key topics provide an overview of possible training content. The contents are mutually agreed upon and tailored to the individual needs of your company and participants.

Open training Korea

An open training is open to all interested parties. People from various companies, institutions or private individuals can participate.

Training locations:
Hanover / Munich / Stuttgart / Frankfurt / Berlin / Hamburg / Düsseldorf / Cologne / Vienna / Zurich AND ONLINE

Dates:

Investment:
3,490.- Euro plus VAT per participant.
From 2 participants from the same company: 2,490 euros plus VAT / participant.

In order to best accommodate our clients and offer high added value, we conduct open intercultural seminars Korea in selected cases even with one participant.

Specific training Korea

Global Cultures

Academy for Intercultural Management

+49 6195 969 34 06
Frankfurt
+49 800 181 51 15
Munich
+49 800 181 51 15
Stuttgart
+49 800 181 51 15
Hamburg
+49 800 181 51 15
Düsseldorf
+49 800 181 51 15
Cologne
+43 1 229 74 06
Vienna
+41 43 508 03 71
Zurich
Testimonials

Practical tips for efficient intercultural collaboration

Intercultural training Korea

With targeted intercultural training in Korea, you can significantly increase your success rate in international business – and benefit from smooth project processes, effective cooperation and good negotiation results. This is why globally active companies are increasingly investing in intercultural competence. After all, many collaborations do not fail due to poor performance: According to the renowned specialist journal “Psychologie heute”, intercultural barriers are the cause in around 70% of all cases.

Why us: Experts from the business world

  • They are Korean or have lived and worked in Korea for a long time – they have absorbed the specifics of the Korean market “with their mother’s milk”, so to speak, or have experienced it first-hand
  • You have several years of professional experience in management or other senior positions in Korea
  • Their high level of methodological competence guarantees a fast and efficient transfer of know-how for our customers
  • Certification as intercultural trainers from renowned international institutes
  • Training and certification as a business coach
  • Training and experience as systemic organizational developers
  • This is how we ensure the quality standards that not only we have for ourselves, but also our customers have for us.
  • Your professional qualifications ensure a targeted and professional structure of our seminars for the rapid and efficient acquisition of intercultural competence

Intercultural training Korea: the key factor for international business success

In less than two generations, Korea has established itself as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics, semiconductors and automobiles. The tiger state has developed into a veritable economic power with great potential.
The South is not impressed by the North’s sabre-rattling. Do you notice the parallels with German history after the Second World War? But that’s where the similarities end. Korea has its own culture, which seems foreign to Europeans.
This is precisely why it is so important for Western European companies to increase the intercultural skills of their employees. Global Cultures helps you to conduct your business in Korea even more efficiently and effectively.

Increase intercultural competence

When working with business partners from Korea, specialists and managers are confronted with seemingly unsolvable problems. In most cases, cooperation does not suffer from a lack of specialist knowledge, but from a lack of preparation through intercultural training in Korea. Numerous studies have shown that intercultural competence is the key factor in almost all projects.

How do your employees benefit from intercultural training in Korea?

Building trust in an international context – optimizing cooperation

Intercultural training Korea enables you to create awareness of your own culture, leadership style and attitude towards working with Korean colleagues and business partners. Furthermore, intercultural training Korea helps to build cooperation on the basis of mutual trust.

A good solution for many countries – our intercultural training is practical for 112 countries.

Global Cultures – Academy for Intercultural Management offers you a broad spectrum of: intercultural training and intercultural coaching — from general preparation training for short-term projects abroad to exclusive seminars and industry-specific intercultural troubleshooting. Intercultural training from Global Cultures is specially tailored to the requirements of internationally active companies and corporations. We place particular emphasis on the benefits for everyday business. Your employees learn how to deal with the other culture and can thus better respond to intercultural peculiarities.

Global Cultures

Academy for Intercultural Management

+49 6195 969 34 06
Frankfurt
+49 800 181 51 15
Munich
+49 800 181 51 15
Stuttgart
+49 800 181 51 15
Hamburg
+49 800 181 51 15
Düsseldorf
+49 800 181 51 15
Cologne
+43 1 229 74 06
Vienna
+41 43 508 03 71
Zurich
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D-65779 Kelkheim

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1. Why do 70% of international cooperations fail due to intercultural problems?
  • Enormous losses and damage to image due to inadequate intercultural preparation - examples of failed projects and joint ventures in Korea
  • Typical mistakes: analysis and lessons learned
  • How to be one of the best: tactics and action strategy
2. Korea- Fiction and truth

What influence does the Korean mentality have on intercultural cooperation?

  • Group ideology: How has rice farming culture influenced the sense of togetherness and orientation towards harmony? What consequences in modern industrial society should you consider in order to achieve success in Korean business?
  • Influence of religion: How has Confucianism shaped the Korean tendency for employees to be loyal to the company and accept existing management structures? What conclusions can you draw for your Korean business to avoid common pitfalls?
  • Harmony: How has the acceptance of natural forces shaped the Korean tendency towards artificial equality and symmetry in society and business? What should you pay particular attention to in this regard?
  • Influence of the Korean language on mentality: How does the language influence the Korean thought structure? Why do verbs and nouns change depending on the rank of the interlocutor? What are the enormous differences between the Korean and "Western" way of thinking?
  • Family concept: How has the family concept been transferred to corporate philosophies? How does the Korean attitude towards employees differ from the "Western" attitude? What critical points do you need to consider?
  • Changing values: What influence do globalization, the media and the activities of Korean companies abroad have on the changing values of Koreans? What should you bear in mind when communicating with representatives of younger and older generations?
3. culture and business: comparison with target countries
  • Status and hierarchy: Efficient techniques to significantly improve communication and achieve excellent results.
  • Individualism vs. group harmony: What should you pay particular attention to in order to operate efficiently in Korean business?
  • Emotionality vs. neutrality: How much emotion can you show in a business context in order to achieve success in Korean business?
  • Punctuality vs. time flexibility: How do you benefit from the professional combination of Korean and Western attitudes to time perception?
  • Direct vs. indirect communication: How do you professionally read between the lines?
  • Performance and relationships: How do you combine both? What dangers does understatement hide?
4. cooperation with Korea - practical suggestions

1. professional communication:

Verbal communication

  • How do you learn to formulate messages and requirements indirectly but clearly without the Koreans losing face?
  • How do you learn to read between the lines quickly? Do words have the same meaning in communication in Korea as they do in Western Europe?

Communication by telephone

  • How much time should you plan for phone calls with Korea?
  • We speak English: what should you bear in mind when speaking English with Koreans? Which typical expressions can be misleading?

Non-verbal communication

  • What is not said is more important than what is said: Why do Koreans rely less on language as a means of communication? What essential skills do you need to develop in order to interpret messages correctly and respond to them appropriately?
  • In Korea, smiling not only expresses joy, but is also associated with sadness, embarrassment, confusion or anger. How do you correctly identify what smiling means in a given situation? How do you learn skills that are essential for success in Korea in order to use the "technique of smiling" appropriately?
  • Eye contact: What intensity of eye contact is common in Korea? How do Koreans feel when they look you in the eye during conversations, as is customary in Western Europe?
  • Proxemics - Paraverbal communication: How do body distance, touching, volume and laughter differ in Korea and Germany? What should you pay particular attention to in order not to appear unprofessional?
  • Tone of voice: The tone makes the music - How do you understand what is going on without having a good command of the language?

2. Successful negotiation

  • Preparing for negotiations: What should you know about negotiating partners? What role do "mediators" play?
  • Types of negotiation: Power, knowledge and relationships - what should you consider?
  • How do negotiations work? What should you pay particular attention to?
  • How long do individual phases of the negotiations take? How do the time frames differ from those in Germany?
  • What role do contracts and agreements play in Korea? What are the fundamental differences to "Western" contract design? How do you deal with the differences?
  • Which tried and tested strategies and tactics should you use?

3. Business meetings and discussions

  • Preparation: What should you pay attention to so that meetings and discussions are conducted efficiently?
  • Time management: According to which special patterns do meetings and discussions take place?
  • Agenda: How do you ensure that the agenda is known to all participants?
  • Procedure: What special features should you bear in mind?
  • Follow-up: How do you ensure that the results are actually implemented?

4. Decision-making

  • What is the principle of decision making in Korea? - Advantages and disadvantages
  • How are Korean employees efficiently involved in the decision-making process?
  • How does communication between employees and different management levels work in Korean companies?

5. types of conflict in Korea and their resolution strategies

  • Conflicts of goals and values: How do Koreans and Germans deal with them? What alternative solutions can you develop?
  • Conflicting methods: How do you react proactively?
  • Distribution conflicts: How do you define solution parameters?

6 Successfully presenting and convincing

  • Structuring information: From the general to the specific - What does this difference mean for you when persuading and presenting? Why is it important to have a visionary
  • to create an overview?
  • How do presentation set-up strategies differ in Korea and Germany? How do you localize your presentation to achieve the desired results?
  • How do you professionally use the technique commonly used in Korea to give Koreans the impression that you came up with the solution yourself?

7. teamwork

  • How do you form and motivate well-functioning teams?
  • Cross-Functional Teams – Communication as the biggest challenge: How should you proceed?

8. men and women in business

  • What should you look out for?
  • What typical mistakes can you easily avoid?
5. long-term success
  • 6 phases of developing intercultural competence
  • What qualities are crucial for adapting quickly to the working environment in France?
  • What difficulties will the family face - how can you alleviate them? Concrete assistance in intercultural training in France
  • Culture shock - what can you do about it?
  • How long does the slightly depressive mood last and how do you deal with it?
  • How should partners and especially children deal with culture shock?
  • Development of an individual action plan for each participant

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  • January 23-24, 2025
  • January 27-28, 2025
  • February 17-18, 2025
  • February 24-25, 2025
  • March 10-11, 2025
  • March 17-18, 2025
  • April 7-8, 2025
  • April 14-15, 2025
  • May 8-9, 2025
  • May 19-20, 2025
  • June 2-3, 2025
  • June 26-27, 2025
  • July 14-15, 2025
  • July 28-29, 2025
  • August 4-5, 2025
  • August 25-26, 2025
  • September 8-9, 2025
  • September 29-30, 2025
  • October 13-14, 2025
  • October 27-28, 2025
  • November 3-4, 2025
  • November 24-25, 2025
  • December 1-2, 2025
  • December 8-9, 2025

Sollten Sie an den genannten Terminen bereits anderweitige Verpflichtungen haben, kontaktieren Sie uns. Aufgrund der Nachfragesituation für interkulturelle Trainings Korea ergeben sich kurzfristig in vielen Fällen alternative Termine.

Um unseren Kunden bestmöglich entgegen zu kommen und einen hohen Mehrwert zu bieten, führen wir offene interkulturelle Seminare Korea in ausgewählten Fällen auch bereits mit einem Teilnehmer durch.

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1. Why do 70% of international cooperations fail due to intercultural problems?
  • Enormous losses and damage to image due to inadequate intercultural preparation - examples of failed projects and joint ventures in Korea
  • Typical mistakes: analysis and lessons learned
  • How to be one of the best: tactics and action strategy
2. Korea- Fiction and truth

What influence does the Korean mentality have on intercultural cooperation?

  • Group ideology: How has rice farming culture influenced the sense of togetherness and orientation towards harmony? What consequences in modern industrial society should you consider in order to achieve success in Korean business?
  • Influence of religion: How has Confucianism shaped the Korean tendency for employees to be loyal to the company and accept existing management structures? What conclusions can you draw for your Korean business to avoid common pitfalls?
  • Harmony: How has the acceptance of natural forces shaped the Korean tendency towards artificial equality and symmetry in society and business? What should you pay particular attention to in this regard?
  • Influence of the Korean language on mentality: How does the language influence the Korean thought structure? Why do verbs and nouns change depending on the rank of the interlocutor? What are the enormous differences between the Korean and "Western" way of thinking?
  • Family concept: How has the family concept been transferred to corporate philosophies? How does the Korean attitude towards employees differ from the "Western" attitude? What critical points do you need to consider?
  • Changing values: What influence do globalization, the media and the activities of Korean companies abroad have on the changing values of Koreans? What should you bear in mind when communicating with representatives of younger and older generations?
3. culture and business: comparison with target countries
  • Status and hierarchy: Efficient techniques to significantly improve communication and achieve excellent results.
  • Individualism vs. group harmony: What should you pay particular attention to in order to operate efficiently in Korean business?
  • Emotionality vs. neutrality: How much emotion can you show in a business context in order to achieve success in Korean business?
  • Punctuality vs. time flexibility: How do you benefit from the professional combination of Korean and Western attitudes to time perception?
  • Direct vs. indirect communication: How do you professionally read between the lines?
  • Performance and relationships: How do you combine both? What dangers does understatement hide?
4. cooperation with Korea - practical suggestions

1. professional communication:

Verbal communication

  • How do you learn to formulate messages and requirements indirectly but clearly without the Koreans losing face?
  • How do you learn to read between the lines quickly? Do words have the same meaning in communication in Korea as they do in Western Europe?

Communication by telephone

  • How much time should you plan for phone calls with Korea?
  • We speak English: what should you bear in mind when speaking English with Koreans? Which typical expressions can be misleading?

Non-verbal communication

  • What is not said is more important than what is said: Why do Koreans rely less on language as a means of communication? What essential skills do you need to develop in order to interpret messages correctly and respond to them appropriately?
  • In Korea, smiling not only expresses joy, but is also associated with sadness, embarrassment, confusion or anger. How do you correctly identify what smiling means in a given situation? How do you learn skills that are essential for success in Korea in order to use the "technique of smiling" appropriately?
  • Eye contact: What intensity of eye contact is common in Korea? How do Koreans feel when they look you in the eye during conversations, as is customary in Western Europe?
  • Proxemics - Paraverbal communication: How do body distance, touching, volume and laughter differ in Korea and Germany? What should you pay particular attention to in order not to appear unprofessional?
  • Tone of voice: The tone makes the music - How do you understand what is going on without having a good command of the language?

2. Successful negotiation

  • Preparing for negotiations: What should you know about negotiating partners? What role do "mediators" play?
  • Types of negotiation: Power, knowledge and relationships - what should you consider?
  • How do negotiations work? What should you pay particular attention to?
  • How long do individual phases of the negotiations take? How do the time frames differ from those in Germany?
  • What role do contracts and agreements play in Korea? What are the fundamental differences to "Western" contract design? How do you deal with the differences?
  • Which tried and tested strategies and tactics should you use?

3. Business meetings and discussions

  • Preparation: What should you pay attention to so that meetings and discussions are conducted efficiently?
  • Time management: According to which special patterns do meetings and discussions take place?
  • Agenda: How do you ensure that the agenda is known to all participants?
  • Procedure: What special features should you bear in mind?
  • Follow-up: How do you ensure that the results are actually implemented?

4. Decision-making

  • What is the principle of decision making in Korea? - Advantages and disadvantages
  • How are Korean employees efficiently involved in the decision-making process?
  • How does communication between employees and different management levels work in Korean companies?

5. types of conflict in Korea and their resolution strategies

  • Conflicts of goals and values: How do Koreans and Germans deal with them? What alternative solutions can you develop?
  • Conflicting methods: How do you react proactively?
  • Distribution conflicts: How do you define solution parameters?

6 Successfully presenting and convincing

  • Structuring information: From the general to the specific - What does this difference mean for you when persuading and presenting? Why is it important to have a visionary
  • to create an overview?
  • How do presentation set-up strategies differ in Korea and Germany? How do you localize your presentation to achieve the desired results?
  • How do you professionally use the technique commonly used in Korea to give Koreans the impression that you came up with the solution yourself?

7. teamwork

  • How do you form and motivate well-functioning teams?
  • Cross-Functional Teams – Communication as the biggest challenge: How should you proceed?

8. men and women in business

  • What should you look out for?
  • What typical mistakes can you easily avoid?
5. long-term success
  • 6 phases of developing intercultural competence
  • What qualities are crucial for adapting quickly to the working environment in France?
  • What difficulties will the family face - how can you alleviate them? Concrete assistance in intercultural training in France
  • Culture shock - what can you do about it?
  • How long does the slightly depressive mood last and how do you deal with it?
  • How should partners and especially children deal with culture shock?
  • Development of an individual action plan for each participant

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  • January 23-24, 2025
  • January 27-28, 2025
  • February 17-18, 2025
  • February 24-25, 2025
  • March 10-11, 2025
  • March 17-18, 2025
  • April 7-8, 2025
  • April 14-15, 2025
  • May 8-9, 2025
  • May 19-20, 2025
  • June 2-3, 2025
  • June 26-27, 2025
  • July 14-15, 2025
  • July 28-29, 2025
  • August 4-5, 2025
  • August 25-26, 2025
  • September 8-9, 2025
  • September 29-30, 2025
  • October 13-14, 2025
  • October 27-28, 2025
  • November 3-4, 2025
  • November 24-25, 2025
  • December 1-2, 2025
  • December 8-9, 2025

If you already have other commitments on the dates mentioned, please contact us. Due to the demand for intercultural training, Korea alternative dates often arise at short notice.

In order to best accommodate our clients and offer high added value, we conduct open intercultural seminars Korea in selected cases even with one participant.

Request now

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